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A34992	A practical and polemical commentary or exposition on the whole fifteenth Psalm wherein the text is learnedly and fruitfully explained, some controversies discussed, sundry cases of conscience are cleared, more especially that of usurie : many common places succinctly handled ... / by Christopher Cartwright ... ; the life of the reverend and learned author is prefixed.	Cartwright, Christopher, 1602-1658.; Bolton, John, 1599-1679. Life of the author.	1658 (1658)	Wing C693; ESTC R18318	282,330	382

both that he would not give any way to the evil suggestion and instigation of his Mistriss And it came to pass as she spake to Joseph day by day that he hearkned not unto her to lie by her or to be with her Gen. 39.10 The wicked are compared to the deaf Adder that stoppeth her ear at the voyce of the Charmer charm he never so wisely Psal 58 4 5. But in this the Godly must be wise as Serpents they must stop their ears at the charming of Satan the World and the Flesh they must take heed of being enchanted by them The first motions of sin are like sparks falling among Hay or Straw or the like if they be not presently quenched they will be likely to set all on fire How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee Jer. 4.14 Evil thoughts will be creeping into us but we must not give them entertainment we must not suffer them to lodge within us We must expel them and drive them away as Abraham did the fowls that molested his sacrifice Gen. 15.11 Neither must we think any sin small so as to sleight it and make no reckoning of it as if there were no danger in adventuring upon it This is one of the wiles of the Devil one of his methodical devices and subtilties 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ephes 6.11 Nemo repentè fuit turpissimus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Transgressio trahit transsionem first to draw men to lesser sins and so by degrees to greater and greater In this the Devil shewes himself a Serpent if he can get in his head he will soon winde in the whole body If he can draw to one sin he will soon draw to another and so to another and another without end except God by his Grace prevent him Sin naturally drawes on sin and the less will draw on the greater David first falling into Adultery which was too bad afterward fell into murther which was far worse So Peter having first barely denyed Christ afterward added Oathes and Execrations 3. This watchfulness which is requisite unto perseverance consists in repenting speedily after that sin is committed Assoon as Davids heart smote him for numbring the people he presently repented of it saying I have sinned greatly in that which I have done and now I beseech thee O Lord take away the iniquity of thy servant for I have done very foolishly 2 Sam. 24.10 If we do not thus watch against sin but suffer it not only to seize on us but also to settle in us we shall soon be hardned with the deceitfulness of it Heb. 3.13 6. That we may persevere in that which is good we must have a care not stand at a stay but to go on still Non progredi est regredi and to grow better and better Not to go forward is to go backward and not to grow better is to grow worse The Lord make you to encrease and abound in love one towards another and towards all men even as we do towards you To the end that he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God even our Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his Saints 1 Thess 3.12 13. Giving all diligence add to your Faith vertue and to vertue knowledge And to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience Godliness And to Godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness Charity For if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ But he that lacketh these things is blinde and cannot see afar off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins Wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your Calling and your Election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fall 2 Pet. 1.5 10. Beware lest ye also being led away with the errour of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness But grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 3.17 18. See also 1 Thess 3.12 13. 7. To meditate of the heavenly reward this also is a great help to perseverance This will quicken and stir up unto diligence this will animate and encourage against all difficulties Be stedfast and unmoveable alwayes abounding in the work of the Lord knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord 1 Cor. 15.58 Let us run with patience the race that is set before us Looking unto Jesus the Author and finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God Heb. 12.1 2. This made Moses to chuse rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season and to esteem the reproach of Christ greater riches then the treasures in Egypt he had respect to the recompence of reward Heb. 11.25 26. See also Phil. 3.13 14. 8. Constant attendance upon Gods Word this is likewise necessary unto perseverance For the Word of God is not only to bring in but also to carry on and to build up unto perfection And now Brethren I commend you to God and to the Word of his Grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified Act. 20.32 Christ ordained the ministery of the Word for the perfecting of the Saints Ephes 4.11 12. 9. If we would persevere in Grace we must continue in prayer and supplication unto God for perseverance For as the beginning of Grace so also perseverance in Grace is from God He that hath begun a good work in you Ipse eos facit perseverare in bono qui facit bonos Aug. de Corr. Grat. c. 12. will also perform it until the day of Jesus Christ Phil. 1 6. As of our selves we cannot rise Si ipse operatur ut accedumus ipse etiam operatur ne discedamus Idem de bono perseverantiae when we are down so neither can we stand when we are up God must still support us or else we fall he only is able to keep us from falling Non sum mihi sine te Aug. Confess Jude vers 24. Therefore we must continually pray unto God to preserve us and to make us persevere Unite my heart to fear thy Name Psal 86.11 Let me not wander from thy Commandments Psal 119.10 Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Mat. 6.13 Thus praying in the holy Ghost keep your selves in the love of God Jude vers 20. 21. Soli Deo gloria FINIS Courteous Reader these Books following are Printed for Nathaniel Brook and are to be sold at his Shop at the Angel in Cornhil Excellent Tracts in Divinity Controversies Sermons Devotions THe Catholique History collected and gathered out of Scripture Councils and Ancient

It is not such a Faith as whereby Abraham was justified for his Faith did appear and evidence it self by his works vers 21 22 23. And so did Rahabs Faith vers 25. Caution 1. But let none so mis understand this as if according to the Popish Doctrine a man were justified by his works By the deeds of the Law shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by the law is the knowledge of sin Rom. 3.20 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the Law vers 28. See also Rom. 4.3 6 7 8. Therefore when S. James saith that by works a man is justified and not by faith onely Jacobus docet quod non side sterili sed fide foecundâ operibus justificamur Cajet in Jac. 2. Jam. 2 24. the meaning is as Cajetan himself doth expound it That a man is not justified by faith that is barren but fruitful in good works So when he saith vers 21. Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered up Isaac his son upon the Altar by works must needs be meant a working Faith for he addes vers 23. And the Scripture was fulfilled which saith Abraham believed God and it was imputed to him for righteousness Now that was spoken of Abraham long before his offering up of Isaac as appears by Gen. 15. 22. so that Abraham was justified by faith long before but that work of obedience which he did in offering up his son shewed that his faith was a true justifying faith indeed and that it was not without good cause said of him that he believed God and it was imputed to him for righteousness Caution 2. Neither again must the Doctrine so be understood as if which the Papists also hold good works did merit heaven and eternal life It is one thing not to be saved without good works and another thing to be saved for them Aliudest secundum opera reddere aliud propter ipsa opera reddere Greg. in Psal 145.8 God will render to every one according to his deeds Rom. 2.6 but not to every one for his deeds To the wicked indeed he will render both according to their deeds also for their deeds because their deeds deserve damnation But to the godly he will onely render according to their deeds not for their deeds not for the merit of them because they do not deserve salvation For 1. The best works that any can do are due and therefore not meritorious When ye shall have done all these things which are commanded you say We are unprofitable servants We have done that which was our duty to do Luk. 17.10 Secondly If we do any good we do it not of our selves by our own power but it is God that doth inable us to do it For we are not sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves but all our sufficiency is of God 2 Cor. 3.5 Therefore whatever good we do we are beholding to God and not he to us for it and consequently we cannot merit any thing at his hands by it Thirdly Our good works are mixed with evil works and are in themselves even the best of them imperfect In many things we offend all Jam. 3.2 There is iniquity even in our holy things Exod. 28.38 Therefore Nehemiah though he prayed unto God to remember him concerning the good that he had done yet to shew how far he was from presuming of the merit of it he added And spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy Neh. 13.22 Fourthly There is no proportion betwixt our works and Salvation no works that we can do are equal to it Illi namque beatae vitae in quâ cum Deo de D o vivitur nullus potest aequari labor nulla opera comparari presertim cum Apostolus dicat non sunt condigne passiones hujus temporis ad futuram gloriàm quae revelabitur in nobis Gregor ubi supra and therefore neither can they merit it The most that we can do is to suffer for the Name of God and of Christ and for righteousness sake Phil. 1.29 Mat. 5.10 11. But the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us Rom. 8.18 But as none must think to be saved for good works so neither must any expect Salvation without good works In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but faith which worketh through love Gal. 5.6 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing but the keeping of the commandments of God 1 Cor. 7.19 Work out your own Salvation with fear and trembling Philip. 2.12 Vse 1 This then may serve first to vindicate our Doctrine and to wipe off the Aspersion which the Papists cast upon us as if we were adversaries and enemies unto good works teaching people that if they believe then all is well enough what ever they do however they live they are sure of Salvation This is not our Doctrine though some may make this perverse use of it We are for the necessity of good works as much as they of the Church of Rome are though we dare not ascribe so much unto them as they do See Serm. 5. Use 1. Vse 2 This also confutes the Antinomians and such as are so for the preaching of Gods mercy and free Grace that they cannot endure to have Duties preached unto people and pressed upon them This they think is legal and servile not agreeable to that Evangelical and free Estate that Christians are now in But we have not so learned Christ He indeed doth make us free Joh. 8.36 But how Not free to sin but free from sin For whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin Joh. 8.34 Know ye not that to whom ye yeild your selves servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin unto death or of righteousness unto life But God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of Doctrine which was delivered unto you Being then made free from sin ye became the servants of righteousness Rom. 16.16 17 18. For this end God sent his Son to redeem us that being delivered out of the hands of our enemies we might serve him without fear in righteousness and holiness before him all the days of our life Luke 1.74 75. For this end Christ gave himself for us He died for all that they which live might not live unto themselves but unto him that died for them and rose again 2 Cor. 5 15. He gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Tit. 2.14 There is no hope of Salvation by Christ without yielding obedience unto Christ He is the author of eternal salvation to all them that obey him Heb. 5.9 He is a King as well as a Priest and a